The conventionalising style in the pottery production of ancient corinth was recently described in studies by martha k. Risser. The picture of the distribution of this ware within the mediterranean remains incomplete because the material from the northern black sea region is almost entirely unpublished. The state hermitage museum possesses over 170 pieces excavated on the island of berezan (settlement and necropolis), olbia (settlement and necropolis), nymphaeum (settlement and sanctuary of demeter), panticapaeum (settlement and necropolis), myrmekion (necropolis) and some ancient cemeteries on the taman peninsula. A dozen items acquired from south russian dealers and collectors provide analogies to them.
The largest groups of vessels came from olbia (over 60) and nymphaeum (over 50); both of these groups demonstrate the variety of shapes (different oinochoe and pyxides, exaleiptra, kotylae) and dates (olbia: mid 6th-mid 5th century bc; nymphaeum: second quarter of the 6th-early 4th century bc). There are more pyxides from olbia (necropolis) and more exaleiptra from nymphaeum (sanctuary of demeter). The pieces from bosporan sites (panticapaeum, myrmekion, taman sites) are similar to those from nymphaeum and less numerous. Only a few conventionalising fragments and miniature vases came from berezan (mainly dated to the second half of the 6th century bc). Over 100 miniature banded kotylae (some pieces as early as the second quarter of the 6th century bc; the latest, late 5th century bc) were found in funerary as well as in sacred context at all the sites.
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